Our Practitioners

Alaina Gemelas

Functional Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Dr. Alaina Gemelas is a chiropractic physician specializing in functional medicine. She takes a whole-body approach to uncover the root causes contributing to what ails you. Dr. Gemelas’ interest in systems-based medicine began early in her medical career when conventional approaches failed ... read more

Caley Scott

Naturopathic Medicine

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Caley Scott is a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine. She earned her degree from National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, IL. Dr. Scott developed a passion for naturopathic medicine while working as a medical assistant at an integrative clinic in the Chicago ... read more

Casey Kelley

Functional Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Dr. Casey Kelley became interested in Integrative Medicine early in her education when she began asking questions about health and healing that conventional medicine was unable to answer. She began seeking out like-minded health practitioners and started studying Functional Medicine, ...

Christine Savas

Licensed Professional Counselor

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Christine Savas is a Licensed Professional Counselor who earned her M.Ed. in Community Counseling from DePaul University and B.S. in Psychology and Human Relations from the University of Iowa. Prior to graduation, Christine interned working throughout the city of Chicago gaining experience ... read more

Cindy Kudelka

Acupuncture

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Cindy Kudelka is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (acupuncture, Chinese herbology, cupping, moxabustion, and gua sha). She has trained extensively with Dr. Richard Tan in I Ching and Balance Method acupuncture, which consist of needling acupuncture points away (distant) from the ...

Cliff Maurer

Chiropractic Medicine

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Having worked at WholeHealth Chicago for over ten years, Dr. Maurer completed his chiropractic internship in a number of Chicago area clinics and graduated from the National University of Health Sciences. He is board certified to practice chiropractic medicine and physiotherapy by ...

David Edelberg

Internal Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Dr. Edelberg, board certified in Internal Medicine in 1974, began incorporating alternative therapies into his practice during the 1980’s. Since founding the parent company of WholeHealth Chicago in 1993, he has become nationally recognized as one of the pioneers of integrative medicine, ...

Elizabeth Yamat

Case Manager / IV Therapies

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Lizz is a certified medical assistant, case manager, and phlebotomist and has worked at WholeHealth Chicago for eight years. She received her training through Olympia College, and continually attends seminars and workshops to keep her skills up to date. She integrates Pilates, ...

Janet Chandler

Clinical Psychology

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Dr. Chandler is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked as a clinician for over 25 years. She has worked with individuals, children, couples, families, and groups addressing a wide variety of mental health challenges including, trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, substance abuse, ...

Jennifer Davis

Licensed Professional Counselor

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Jennifer has a lifelong passion for how people learn and grow over time. She is interested in how our stories about ourselves keep us stuck or help us move forward and flourish through our lives.
Jennifer is a licensed professional counselor who received ... read more

Katie McManigal

Family Nurse Practitioner

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Katie is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She began her career as an RN in the neonatal intensive care unit, where she realized that an individual’s health begins before conception and involves the entire family. Katie found conventional medicine lacking in ... read more

Katie Oberlin

Healing Touch; Shamanic Healing

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Katie is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Shamanic Healing Practitioner. She is fascinated with the way these two energy modalities dovetail beautifully with one another.

Mari Stecker

Acupuncture

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Along with Dr. Edelberg, Mari Stecker is one of the three original co-founders of American WholeHealth which became WholeHealth Chicago in 1999. After graduating from the Midwest College for the Study of Oriental Medicine, she was one of the first recipients ...

Marla Feingold

Clinical Nutrition & Exercise Physiology

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Marla is an experienced Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN), Board Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and a Licensed Dietician Nutritionist (LDN) in the state or Illinois. She holds a M.S in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, and a B.S in ...

Paul Rubin

Chiropractic Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Dr. Rubin is a unique chiropractic physician in that he practices as a primary care physician using a functional medicine approach with his patients. Functional medicine is a way of thinking about disease based on how all the body’s systems ...

Renee Zambo

Yoga Therapist

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Renee Zambo is a 1000hr Yoga Therapist who began practicing yoga as a way to reduce stress in high school. She began teaching in 2010 and fell in love with meeting people from various backgrounds and with different health challenges. Her desire was ... read more

Seanna Tully

Nutrition & Herbal Medicine/Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Seanna is a graduate and faculty at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She is nationally board certified in Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine and Chinese Medicine through NCCAOM and is a registered professional member of the American Herbalist Guild since 1998. She has a ... read more

Sujatha Mannal

Homeopathy

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!

Sujatha holds a Bachelor in Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) degree from Calcutta, India, from the oldest existing homeopathic college in the world. This was a 5 year integrated medical program with 2-year residency, teaching homeopathy with allied medical sciences like Anatomy, ... read more

Suzi Katlin

Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!
Suzi Katlin graduated from Northwestern University in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. Since then, she’s helped bring thousands of new lives into the world, working for 28 years at Northwestern Memorial Hospital as a prenatal, post-partum, and labor and delivery nurse.
Throughout her career, Suzi has devoted herself to helping women with maternal/child ...

Valarie McConville

Occupational Therapy

INTRODUCTIONS, PLEASE!
Valarie McConville graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Kinesiology and earned her MS of Occupational Therapy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Valarie has worked in a variety of settings as an occupational therapist, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home health, and skilled ... read more

Our Services

At WholeHealth Chicago our patients have access to providers who use an integrative and functional medicine model. Functional medicine is a real paradigm shift in the practice of health care. Instead of the traditional disease-centered focus of conventional medicine, functional medicine practitioners apply a patient-centered approach that addresses the whole person–not simply isolated symptoms.

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